Re: [Vala] [Genie] simple string example no longer compiles

[Abderrahim Kitouni <a kitouni gmail com>]

Hi,

2009/10/26 Barry Kauler <bkauler gmail com>:
>  I am asking about
>
>  var s = new string
>
>  To me, it *does* make sense, but anyway, I am not asking about it's
>  merits. I would like to know why it compiled before, not now.
>  It looks like quite legal syntax to me, and the compiler was happy
>  with it, and if it is now not legal, why not?

The syntax is fine, it's just that string does not have a constructor.
It used to work because valac did not check for this before (I've
recently found the same to be true for Object), whether this should
work or not is something I cannot answer.

HTH,
Abderrahim